Re: Hustling in New Orleans; was Busking

[Garry Hodgson <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aeskow@xxxxxxx wrote:

>  So the mean old "scum-bags" are trying to bum money from poor little YOU?  
> Why the hell shouldn't they?  1.  They probably made you for an easy mark from 
> 1000 yards away.  2.  They hustle to survive--with very few other choices 
> available to them.  

perhaps he was referring to people like these:

> Monday, May 3, 2004 Posted: 5:16 PM EDT (2116 GMT)
> 
> NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Four teenagers are accused of killing a man as
> he left the city's annual jazz festival, the second shooting death in three
> months at a major New Orleans tourist event, police said Monday.
> 
> Police said the four teens demanded money from Daniel Breaux, 57, as he
> walked to his car Saturday after the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, then
> shot him in the head as he continued walking.
> 
> The killing took place six blocks from the popular music event as crowds
> leaving the concert grounds streamed into the surrounding residential
> neighborhood.

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